Jasper Collins

Jasper Collins (1 November 1827-19 August 1913) was the right-hand man of Free State of Jones leader Newton Knight. He came from a large family of staunch Mississippi Unionists, but he was forced to serve in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In 1863, he deserted and joined his friend Newton Knight, and he later named his son Ulysses Sherman Collins after Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman. Collins died in Union, Mississippi in 1913.